Elisabeth Bergdahl
Elisabeth Bergdahl Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Health SciencesEmail: ZWxpc2FiZXRoLmJlcmdkYWhsO29ydS5zZQ==
Phone: +46 19 303655
Room: P2347
About Elisabeth Bergdahl
Elisabeth Bergdahl is a docent in medical science with a focus on nursing science and a registered nurse. She has worked at the School of Health Sciences at Örebro University since 2019. Elisabeth Bergdahl has previous experience of working in palliative home care, care in surgical wards, and nursing homes.
Research
Elisabeth Bergdahl received her doctorate in 2012 from Karolinska Institutet. The overall purpose of her thesis was to investigate good care relationships with dying patients within specialised palliative home care. Her complex choice of methods in the thesis includes action research, case studies, qualitative hypothesis testing, and content analysis.
Elisabeth Bergdahl has since written a number of theoretical method articles that aim to deepen the understanding of qualitative methods and development towards theory and deduction.
She is also a project leader in the research group RIPE (Research in Palliative Care) which focuses on studying, among other things, emergency interventions and transport to hospital for people with palliative care needs at the end of life and their relatives. She also works with concepts within palliative care.
Teaching
Elisabeth Bergdahl’s educational assignments currently focus primarily on palliative care, scientific theory, and qualitative methods – both at undergraduate and master’s levels, as well as at the doctoral level.
Collaborations and assignments
Elisabeth Bergdahl supervises several doctoral students at Örebro University and University of Vaasa, Finland, and has collaborations with researchers in Finland and Norway.
Research projects
Active projects
- Emergency care and transport to emergency hospitals by dying patients in the home; a necessity or an unnecessary suffering
- Emergency interventions and transport to hospitals of patients receiving palliative care at home or in nursing homes
- Ambulance transport services for older people - Interview study with healthcare professionals in general palliative municipality care
- To describe relatives? experiences of the meeting with prehospital healthcare professionals in the event of death at home concerning people with palliative care needs
- The pendulum words of Qvarnström and dying in relation to awareness, fear and time; a theoretical analysis.
- The caring process of co-creation in palliative care; A Qualitative Meta Synthesis
- A theoretical perspective to enhance the theory of co-creation in palliative care with dignity
- Model and knowledge support for the development of good palliative care in the home
- National survey of relatives' experiences during specialized palliative care: A palliative registry study
- Palliative Care in Emergency Medicine (Pacem)
Research groups
Publications
Articles in journals
- Andersson-Watz, A. , Bergdahl, E. , Eriksson Crommert, M. , Nygren-Bonnier, M. & Svantesson, M. (2025). Living with progressive neurological disease and breathing difficulties. Annals of palliative medicine, 14 (1), 67-78. [BibTeX]
- Storm, E. , Bergdahl, E. , Tranvåg, O. , Korzhina, Y. , Linnanen, C. , Blomqvist, H. & Hemberg, J. (2025). Palliative nurses' experiences of alleviating suffering and preserving dignity. Nursing Ethics, 32 (7), 2018-2032. [BibTeX]
- Linnanen, C. , Hemberg, J. , Bjerga, G. H. , Ueland, V. & Bergdahl, E. (2025). Possibilities and Limitations in Person-Centred Cancer Care: A Qualitative Study. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 39 (1). [BibTeX]
- Andersson-Watz, A. , Nygren-Bonnier, M. , Bergdahl, E. , Eriksson Crommert, M. & Svantesson, M. (2024). Introducing Mechanically Assisted Cough for Patients with Progressive Neurological Disease: Patient-Physical Therapist Interaction and Physical Therapist Perspective. Physical Therapy, 104 (5). [BibTeX]
- Wall, C. , Blomberg, K. , Bergdahl, E. , Sjölin, H. & Alm, F. (2024). Patients near death receiving specialized palliative home care being transferred to inpatient care - a registry study. BMC Palliative Care, 23 (1). [BibTeX]
- Bergdahl, E. & Berterö, C. M. (2023). Creating theory: Encouragement for using creativity and deduction in qualitative nursing research. Nursing Philosophy, 24 (4). [BibTeX]
- Blomqvist, H. , Bergdahl, E. & Hemberg, J. (2023). Ethical sensitivity and compassion in home care: Leaders' views. Nursing Ethics, 30 (2), 159-316. [BibTeX]
- Maehre, K. S. , Bergdahl, E. & Hemberg, J. (2023). Patients', relatives' and nurses' experiences of palliative care on an advanced care ward in a nursing home setting in Norway. Nursing Open, 10 (4), 2464-2476. [BibTeX]
- Hemberg, J. & Bergdahl, E. (2020). Dealing with ethical and existential issues at end of life through co-creation. Nursing Ethics, 27 (4), 1012-1031. [BibTeX]
- Hemberg, J. & Bergdahl, E. (2020). Ethical sensitivity and perceptivness in palliative home care through co-creation. Nursing Ethics, 27 (2), 446-460. [BibTeX]
- Hemberg, J. & Bergdahl, E. (2019). Cocreation as a Caring Phenomenon: Nurses' Experiences in Palliative Home Care. Holistic Nursing Practice, 33 (5), 273-284. [BibTeX]
- Bergdahl, E. (2019). Is meta-aggregation a viable method for qualitative evidence synthesis?: A reply to the commentary by Lockwood et al.. Nursing Inquiry, 26 (4). [BibTeX]
- Bergdahl, E. (2019). Is meta-synthesis turning rich descriptions into thin reductions?: A criticism of meta-aggregation as a form of qualitative synthesis. Nursing Inquiry, 26 (1). [BibTeX]
- Bergdahl, E. , Ternestedt, B. , Berterö, C. & Andershed, B. (2019). The theory of a co-creative process in advanced palliative home care nursing encounters: A qualitative deductive approach over time. Nursing Open, 6 (1), 175-188. [BibTeX]
- Solbakken, R. , Bergdahl, E. , Rudolfsson, G. & Bondas, T. (2018). International Nursing: Caring in Nursing Leadership – A Meta-ethnography From the Nurse Leader's Perspective. Nursing Administration Quarterly, 42 (4), E1-E19. [BibTeX]
- Bergdahl, E. & Berterö, C. M. (2016). Concept analysis and the building blocks of theory: misconceptions regarding theory development. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 72 (10), 2558-2566. [BibTeX]
- Bergdahl, E. & Berterö, C. M. (2015). The myth of induction in qualitative nursing research. Nursing Philosophy, 16 (2), 110-120. [BibTeX]
- Bergdahl, E. , Benzein, E. , Ternestedt, B. , Elmberger, E. & Andershed, B. (2013). Co-creating possibilities for patients in palliative care to reach vital goals: a multiple case study of home-care nursing encounters. Nursing Inquiry, 20 (4), 341-351. [BibTeX]
- Bergdahl, E. , Benzein, E. , Ternestedt, B. & Andershed, B. (2011). Development of nurses' abilities to reflect on how to create good caring relationships with patients in palliative care: an action research approach. Nursing Inquiry, 18 (2), 111-122. [BibTeX]
- Bergdahl, E. , Wikström, B. & Andershed, B. (2007). Esthetic abilities: a way to describe abilities of expert nurses in palliative home care. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 16 (4), 752-760. [BibTeX]
Chapters in books
- Bergdahl, E. (2022). Insikten om ”rutinkulturens klor” gav bättre bemötande och vård. In: Elisabeth Bergdahl; Fia Andersson, Deltagarbaserad aktionsforskning: tillsammans för kunskap, lärande och förändring (pp. 75-96). Stockholm: Studentlitteratur AB. [BibTeX]
- Bergdahl, E. (2022). Meta-Summary: Aggregating Findings and Preparing for Meta-Synthesis. In: Rob Dekkers; Lindsey Carey; Peter Langhorne, Making Literature Reviews Work: A Multidisciplinary Guide to Systematic Approaches (pp. 390-396). . Springer. [BibTeX]
Conference papers
- Wall, C. , Blomberg, K. , Bergdahl, E. , Sjölin, H. & Alm, F. (2024). A national charting of patients receiving specialized palliative home care being transported to hospital near death. In: Palliative Medicine A Multiprofessional Journal. Paper presented at The 13th World Research Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care, Barcelona, May 16-18, 2024. Sage Publications. [BibTeX]
- Wall, C. , Blomberg, K. , Bergdahl, E. , Sjölin, H. & Alm, F. (2024). Patients near death being transported to emergency care despite receiving specialized palliative home care: A registry study. Paper presented at EUSEM 2024, European Emergency Medicine Congress, Copenhagen, October 13-16, 2024. [BibTeX]
- Wall, C. , Blomberg, K. , Bergdahl, E. , Sjölin, H. & Alm, F. (2023). Kartläggning av transporter till sjukhus av patienter nära livets slut som får specialiserad palliativ hemsjukvård: nationell registerstudie. Paper presented at 8:e Nationella konferensen i palliativ vård, Malmö, 2-4 oktober, 2023. [BibTeX]